The Knicks and Nets played played a hard-fought game yesterday with the team from Brooklyn squeaking out an 88-85 win–but the battle for New York didn’t end after the final buzzer. After the game, Nets power forward Kris Humphries, who had once had a tumultuous relationship with reality star Kim Kardashian, did some online trash talking, tweeting “Big game tonight!The Garden got really quiet on the way out!#Brooklyn.” Knicks shooting guard J.R. Smith, a frequent tweeter and excellent trash-talker, didn’t let Humphries get the last word, and tweeted back: “Wasnt quiet when Kanye tore it down last month!” Rapper Kanye West recently announced that he’s having a baby with Kardashian. In Twitter terms, that’s a slam dunk.

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